Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.). St. Joseph's Cathedral.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> H.L. Woehler, Buffalo, N.Y.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.). St. Joseph's Cathedral.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> H.L. Woehler, Buffalo, N.Y.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> H.L. Woehler, Buffalo, N.Y.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Catholic churches.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> H.L. Woehler, Buffalo, N.Y.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Episcopal Church--United States.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Episcopal Church--United States.]]> Detroit Publishing Co.]]> Detroit Publishers Co.]]> ENG]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Buffalo (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.]]> Religious organizations--United States.]]> Church buildings--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Episcopal Church--United States.]]> Clawson & Wilson, Buffalo, N.Y.]]> Milly (author)]]> ENG]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Kaye, Kate]]> https://redtailmedia.org/spilling-grain/]]> Grosvenor Room of B&ECPL (repository)]]> Benda, Wladislaw Theodore]]> Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)]]> Refugees]]> Refugees--Poland]]> Catholic Charities of Buffalo]]> St. Stanislaus, Bishop & Martyr Parish (Buffalo, N.Y.)]]> Saint Mary's School for the Deaf (Buffalo, N.Y.)]]>
WIVB-TV reporter Rich Newberg flew with Casey to JFK Airport in New York the day he was reunited with his family. They all embraced. His wife Katrina is also deaf and worked as a tailor in Gdansk to make ends meet.

Daughter Kataryna was able to speak for the family through an interpreter. She said, "Without father there is no life." In Buffalo, Catholic Charities and St. Mary's School for the Deaf were prepared to help the family start life over again.

In a follow-up report almost a year-and-a half later, we see Katrina working as a seamstress. Daughters Katrina and Monica learned to speak English at St. Stanislaus School in Buffalo. Monica had become best friends with a fellow student. Katrina was having a harder time adjusting to life in America.

The Catholic Church continued to play a major role in their lives. Msgr. John Gabalski of St. Stanislaus Church said of the Wrobel family, "They preach a better sermon by their behavior than I can preach orally." Monica had just celebrated her first communion.]]> Newberg, Rich]]> Gabalski, John]]> eng]]> Postcards--New York (State)--Buffalo.]]> Photographic postcards.]]> Public schools-- New York (state)-- Buffalo-- History]]> Public Schools.]]> Jda (author)]]> ENG]]> ]]> Gorny, Anthony-Peter]]> SUNY Buffalo State University]]> eng]]> Rare Book Room of the B&ECPL (repository)]]> eng]]> Early Twentieth Century (1900-1925)]]> Grain elevators--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> Grain trade--New York (State)--Buffalo ]]> Installations (Art)--New York (State)--Buffalo]]> “Banging, creaking, popping, sliding, scraping: every sound you could imagine. Sometimes it sounded like a person screaming, the way the wind moved through there.”

As a kid, Steve Baczkowski sneaked into Buffalo’s abandoned grain elevators to hear what his sax might sound like bouncing around their concrete canyons. So, when the longtime music curator at Buffalo’s contemporary arts center Hallwalls got a chance to keep watch over a robotic electronic sound installation inside a grain elevator, his sound nerd alarm bells rang. Steve camped out inside the Marine A elevator to watch over an art installation at what had become known as Silo City for the month of September 2019, playing his sax and didgeridoo, hearing ghostly sounds, diverting rain, and even witnessing a Buffalo Bills fan's life-affirming experience through art. Baczkowski was interviewed in early 2020 by Kate Kaye.

NOTE: This story features detailed descriptions of grain elevator acoustics and internal and external post-industrial environments.

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